What if Steven went through public schooling along side learning gem stuff? Imagine: - Showing off his gem in like kindergarten but not being able to use it - Human History with Bird Mom - REFUSING to comb his hair until he's like..13, and then everyone being confused because his hair is just super curly but if he doesn't comb it it becomes an afro - Being super annoyed with English classes because he thought itd be writing stories but it's just essays - Every April fools day he does SOMETHING with shapeshifting - In P.E. classes discovering his gem strength and making sure to be much more careful - Quartz growth spurts where he gets like a foot taller in just a few months, then stops growing for long periods of time - Eventually being at least a head taller than everyone he knows BC quartz build - Hating desks as he gets taller because his legs get all cramped - Discovering wrestling and joining school teams - Shapeshifting to look like an adult to skip class with friends--then getting caught and chastised by Pearl and Garnet. But cheered on my amethyst - Willing to fight anyone who is fatphobic anywhere anytime - Enjoying history and math and constantly asking questions about them to his teachers, sometimes even annoying them with his enthusiasm - Joining choirs and performing in musical dramas (shapeshifting makes for some WILD costume changes..) - Bringing gem tech from Pearl into Show and Tells when he's young - One time Steven got really pissed off and a door handle bent to his hand after he used it. Nobody asked him why. - Inexplicably being friends with EVERYONE - Having to awkwardly explain his absences due to gem missions - Coming to school running on coffee and 2 hours of sleep after a gem mission in high school - MESSING UP bullies - Being super annoyed in highschool because he's that one student bending down to get through doorways and everyone always makes "how's the weather up there" jokes - People flirting with him and he just doesn't know how to respond at ALL - Riding lion to school - That one time a gem corruption came on campus, and everyone saw Steven kick its butt and bubble it. Nobody asks how. - Sneaking healing spit onto friends who got hurt - Pearl crying on his first day of school - Garnet walking in on mile time day, telling the P.E. Teacher every students mile time, then walking away - Going all-out on artsy projects and stuff - "Why do you smell like roses all the time?" - Going into astronomy/architecture in college because "going into a medical field feels like cheating" - SENIOR PRANK WITH AMETHYST - The Gems telling Steven he should get 2nd place in nationals wrestling because getting 1st would be suspicious (imagine the scene from the Incredibles with dash in the race) - People always get confused and slightly afraid during his quartz growth spurts because he's always eating or looking to buy food during them. People swear he's glowing sometimes. - Food fights with a shield - Garnet spending a solid 30 minutes talking a teacher into a corner in a debate on whether or not Steven's hair is too long and needs to be cut. Steven gets to keep growing out his hair. - This one time Steven only got like an hour of sleep in a week and someone pulled his hair as a joke, he threw them down a hallway (they weren't hurt but were pretty shaken). - Visiting Connies speech and debate tournaments and getting stares because everyone's wearing suits and stuff and he's there with a tank top and gym shorts - In P.E. he almost got suspended in high school because he got into a sort of contest of who could lift more with someone he didn't like and ended up breaking a bench press machine but adding too much weight - Using his shield to ride down staircases like a slide - Giving his biology teacher a hamster grape - Cooking clubs!! - Being a guide for freshman coming into high school when he's a senior and immediately regretting the decision once he starts talking to them because none of them will stop making height jokes - Pearl WEEPING because she's proud of Steven for getting into Empire City University with a full scholarship from wrestling - "Can you drive?" "No. I have a magic lion that can travel via portals." - The football coach trying to convince Steven to play football, and Steven is vaguely interested, but Pearl REFUSES to let him play - Really intense truth or dare games. One time he snuck into a club with shapeshifting from one of them. - Always having a pair of headphones. ALWAYS. - Forgetting homework and getting it from home during passing periods because Lion can get him to school and back in like a minute - Somehow managing to be late sometimes just because "oh, I have lion, I'll be on time" so he sleeps in then realizes school starts in 2 minutes and he hasn't even put a shirt on - Figuring out how to fuse somewhat reliably, and fusing with friends at school - Randomly disappearing from the campus for quick gem missions during lunch - He's bumped his head in doorways more times than he can count. - Stevens 1-4 grade teachers low-key hating Garnet because every time she comes over at least one child gets into her hair and she almost walks out with them because she doesn't realize - One time Steven tried to go to a parent teacher conference by himself because "I'm my own mom" Honestly I love the idea of Steven going through public schooling and college so much.